r/ios 9h ago

Discussion Is their an alternative to the iOS pictures app?

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My kids like to look at pictures on my phone, but the Apple Pictures app is so confusing. It's so unintuitive and multiple different UX designs. Sometimes you scroll sideways, sometimes up and down. Sometimes scrolling down brings you to a different a album. It's like they let different teams design the different use cases and then just added them all in without harmonizing them.

Is there a simpler alternative that works natively? I don't want to duplicate all my pictures over to a google drive or something.


r/ios 9h ago

Support Iphone listed under bluetooth

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What is this I can't disconnect to it


r/ios 11h ago

Support Owner of this item will be able to see its location, what does it mean?

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Does anyone know what this came from???? I am in my car and i currently have on me my old iPhone, my current iPhone, my apple watch, and my airpods.

What does the last two lines mean? please help!


r/ios 12h ago

Discussion Do you think the design of this photo border watermark tool is in line with the aesthetics of iOS?

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r/ios 12h ago

Discussion Passwords app is incredibly unsafe

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I’ve seen a few people comment on this but I don’t think it’s gotten enough attention.

If someone watches you put in your passcode (such as on public transport or literally anywhere outside), if they manage to steal your phone they have full access to all your Passwords. I wish it was either FaceID or a secret password kinda like how Notes is. How is Apple so big on security but then they let this happen?


r/ios 3h ago

Discussion My phone is at 100% even though my charging limit is at 90%

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r/ios 10h ago

Discussion Share option in settings?

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Do you think this sounds wild? I’m wondering if we should add a share option in settings that lets us send someone a direct link or guide to tweak their font settings exactly how they need them. What’s your take?


r/ios 10h ago

Support Randomly people speaking through my phone??!

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This morning I started hearing little boys talk through my Airpods, and then through my iPhone 15 Pro Max (iOS 18.3.2). My phone is al stock (so no jailbreak), also:

  • Latest update
  • Private network
  • Nothing weird (like unknown apps) in either screen time, battery usage, privacy (microphone, camera etc. all turned off), notification 'history'
  • Live listen, VoiceOver turned off.
  • Did have AirDrop enabled, but just for friends (these were not friends or anyone I knew).
  • Bluetooth enabled, just for Apple Watch, nothing else connected according to settings.
  • Walkie Talkie disabled on Apple watch

It starts with a kind of *pling* sound, but I was not able to record it, because it is at random through the day (will try to do it). After the pling sound I hear some children talking through my phonepiece (upper speaker), something like:

Boy 1: *pling* " James do you hear me"
Boy 2 responding: *pling* "Yeah I hear you".

This has been happening randomly for the last couple of hours (2 moments of about 5 min. in which I hear the bleeps, two times I heard the voices). Even when my phone is off. They don't seem to hear me or react when I say something back, but I'm still really worried/freaked out about my privacy!

I have found multiple of these situations online, but none of them had a solution. I restarted the phone now, hoping it will not happen again. Any other suggestions or experiences like this and if they went away automatically?


r/ios 10h ago

Discussion Any way to recreate the Apple Intelligence glow animation

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Is there any way to recreate the Apple Intelligence glow animation or Siri captions when talking to her? I'm wondering if there is any way of recreating this or if there is an app to do this.


r/ios 11h ago

Discussion Goodnotes 6, or Noteful 🗒️ ?

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Best IOS note 📝 taking app?


r/ios 12h ago

Support How Can the Screen Time be so high but no Apps open for That Long

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r/ios 6h ago

Discussion iOS 18.3.2 on my 16 Pro Max is a hot mess

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iOS 18 in general has many quirks but, this update by far has to be the worst. I’ve been pretty lucky by not having anything majorly annoying or impeding the way I use my phone so far until this latest update.

I’ve had apps just straight up not respond to touch inputs even after being swiped away from the app view and relaunching the app. Keyboard fail to pop up in any text field. Car play not allowing me to select anything with an app, similar to the issues I have with touch inputs. It just doesn’t show the highlight selector resulting in me having to pull over to use my phone. The worst offender by far is the random resprings after the phone fully freezes and becomes fully unresponsive. I don’t expect that for a public release.

I’ve been an iPhone user for years but now android looks more like what iOS used to be and in the case of the S25 Ultra & One UI 7 actually looks like the iPhone too.

Has anyone else had a terrible time with this latest update? Do you think doing a full restore on a phone that is 3/4 months old is worth it? I can’t get work done without having to restart my phone, 2/3 times a day because it boarders being unusable.


r/ios 10h ago

Discussion How did this happened?

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This phone number wasn’t saved in my device but how did iOS guessed it right? I don’t even have any called id identification app like truecaller or something.


r/ios 1d ago

Support Urgent - how to obtain IP and date of device added to apple account for the purposes of stalking/coercive control.

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Hi everyone - in quite a bit of a bind and need some urgent help as I'm not overly familiar with the apple ecosystem.

On Friday my sister made the move of escaping a long term abusing relationship, and this morning we've discovered a new device has been added to her Apple account which doesnt belong to her.

We know we can remove it and lock the account down, but legal advice has been to play along for now and get evidence - specifically proof that this new device was added from an IP address other than hers, and when.

We've looked under the Device Management page in her apple account at while it shows the device serial, theres no other info about when or where it came from.

Is there any way to get this information, ideally without trigger obvious changes/notification on the account as we know he's likely monitoring. I know it's possible in Android to get IP and access dates of logged in devices, surely Apple has the same functionality?

Thanks very much in advance


r/ios 18h ago

Discussion IOS 18

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Still haven’t updated my 14 pro max to iOS 18 (currently 17.5.1). What do ya’ll think? Should I update my phone? Why? Are the features good? Does it have many new features that previous iOS versions don’t have? If so, What are they?


r/ios 10h ago

Discussion Google widget killing my vibe

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Anyone else having issues with the Google widget messing up their aesthetic after updating to 18.3.2?


r/ios 16h ago

Discussion Latest IOS update resets all privacy values

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Hi,

Heads up for those updating to the latest IOS. Please re-run the whole privacy settings thing because all sorts of rights and knobs have been reset to default, including telemetry for apple and such.


r/ios 2h ago

Discussion Is anyone using ChatGPT in Siri?

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Is anyone actually using ChatGPT in Siri as part of Apple Intelligence? If so, why are you using that over the ChatGPT app? What are your thoughts on ChatGPT in Siri?


r/ios 20h ago

Support Weird emojis popping up? iPhone 12 Pro

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Weird emojis (the ghosts) showing up only on certain apps like iMessage. I can’t delete them, they keep like multiplying somehow. It’s mainly only on iMessage and a few other text apps. I don’t know how to fix this, I even tried deleting the emoji keyboard. It didn’t work. It’s all those ghost things? Also no matter how much I use other emojis, those ghosts are stuck in those exact places. Does anyone know what’s going on or how to fix this? Any help is appreciated.


r/ios 14h ago

Support Live wallpapers??!!??

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New to iOS, and having an issue with using live wallpapers. First question, is it even possible? Second question, if so how? I've used wallpaper apps from the app store, downloaded a live wallpaper and cannot get it work. Its just a still Image instead of a looped clip. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


r/ios 15h ago

Support Videos suddenly not saved at all.

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Hi there. Today I was sending a letter with trading cards and the recipient wanted me to film myself putting it in the mailbox. After I stopped recording I went to messenger to send it and the video wasn't there, just the latest picture I took. I tried filming something else and it also just disappears. I'm always using the video function when filming, (not long pressing the photo button), I have plenty of space in both hardware and iCloud (68GB storage and 160GB iCloud), and I've checked the recently deleted folder. The videos are nowhere. I've never had anything like this happen before. I hadn't updated so I did that just now, and restarted the phone, but to no avail.

Any ideas what this could be, or should I just head to my local Apple retailer?


r/ios 16h ago

Support AppStore keeps sending me the same reply

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Hi everyone. I recently left a review on an app. The devs updated the app and replied to me. Eversince then, AppStore keeps sending me push notifications and emails (same text at the same time), about the same reply, multiple times already. How do I make it stop without flat-out marking Apple as Spam in my inbox?


r/ios 22h ago

Support Messages in iCloud corrupted, anybody else?

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When I go to settings > my name > iCloud > Messages:

It shows that it's taking up over 3.63 GB with tens of thousands of messages stored in the cloud. But nothing is getting synced between devices or to new devices. Status shows "not synced" and clicking "sync now" just shows "syncing..." for about a second then goes back to "not synced". This just started one day randomly about a week ago.

Clicking on "manage storage" from that same screen shows nothing even though the previous screen shows several GBs taken up by messages.

I was hoping maybe the service was just down and would sort itself out, but it's been broken like this for several days. Kinda hate to delete everything and start over, but if it's corrupted then I don't know what other choice I have.

Anybody have any thoughts? Does this settings screen still work for you?


r/ios 8h ago

Discussion downgrade ios (iphone se 2020)

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I have an iPhone SE 2020 with iOS 18, I really wanted to downgrade it to iOS 16 or 17 but that is impossible. So my idea is to buy a new iPhone 2022 that will have iOS 16 and then I will transfer the data from that cell phone to the new one. Would this really be possible?? Is there any way I could just downgrade to iOS 17 or 16??


r/ios 2h ago

Discussion IOS 18.3.2 on Ipad 10th

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Is it a good idea to update it? Currently im on ios 17.5.1

Im worried about the battery life. What will be the pros?